The compiler is indebted to Alistair Banfield for guidance and loyal support, Reinhard Zierke of the excellent Mainly Norfolk website (https://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/folk/), an invaluable resource, and to Bill Leader, the man himself.

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Tremendous output and everyone quality. I remember Bill and Helen moving to Elland from 5 North Villas.. was it?. At the time I was North of England sales rep for Transatlantic Records. I could have sold a bunch more had RCA at Washington pressed enough "Lancashire Lad"!

Ken, Jools and Anonymous - and Sedayne too - if you have any memories to share, I can be found at wildchild.butler@googlemail.com or at the other end of 0161 226 5461. Thanks for the enthusiastic response. Plus, I'm still finding items for the Discography. For instance, in less than the 24 hours since I posted, I discovered this:

8T7 A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, Row, Bullies, Row [Topic, 8" LP] Ω My only input to T7&T8 “T”(not “8T”, by the way) was to supervise the reissue. The recording had been done before I joined Topic, and had been released as two 10” LPs on Stinson in the US.

C5 Ewan MacColl w A.L. Lloyd, Singing Sailors [Wattle, 10" LP, Aus. issue culled from TRL3, The Singing Sailor, and 8T8] Ω † I don’t have the Stinson details to hand, but my understanding is that the Stinson sessions were the source of all these Sailor Song albums: TRL3, T7,T8, the Ch du M and the Wattle releases. .

SLP 80 A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, Haul on the Bowlin' Vol.I [Stinson, 10" US LP collected from TRL3, The Singing Sailor, 8T7 and 8T8] Ω † I don’t have the Stinson details to hand, but my understanding is that the Stinson sessions were the source of all these Sailor Song albums: TRL3, T7,T8, the Ch du M and the Wattle releases. .

SLP 81 A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl, Off to Sea Once More [Stinson, US LP collected from TRL3, 8T7 and 8T8] Ω † see above

FW 8501 Ewan MacColl and Dominic Behan, The Singing Streets [Folkways, US issue of 12T41] Ω This was a Kenneth S Goldstein commission, originally for Riverside, who decide to pass on it. KSG sold it (or more likely gave it) to Folkways. The Topic/Riverside deal restricted the Topic release of stuff done for Riverside. No such restriction existed with Folkways, so Topic gave it a local release, changing the name, so that we were not living off the reputation of the Norton Park documentary

1965

12T130 Ewan MacColl w Peggy Seeger, Bundook Ballads [Topic, expanded reiss. of 10T26] Ω † 1966 Riverside’s Bless em All was the original of this and the Washington reissue.

A great piece of work - it honours Bill and all that he has done and is still doing for folk - I knew most of the albums but there were still many that I hadn't realised / had forgotten that Bill had had a hand in. Thank you for putting this together.

Thanks Mike, And I'm still finding them. And also, conversely, removing those that I've erroneously placed there. For instance, on 30.12.13, this: 1968 12T192 The Valley Folk, All Bells in Paradise [Topic] Ω ∆ I've just scored a copy, and it definitely says 'Recorded by R.W. Swettenham'. Oh well, the search continues. (Mike, we must get together sometime for an interview for my projected Bill book.) Mike

This is a truly heroic effort - a labour of love. Well done for compiling this. I'm in the Leader Youth division of acolytes, having only known and worked with Bill for the last 30 odd years (not forgetting John Gill)! Still proud to be part of Bill's punk period though! Phil - The Blazing Snowmen

It`s like peeking in through a door to your past.So many sessions that Bill was involved with, so many songs and tunes.What a great legacy.Thank you for reminding me /us of the work Bill has done for music. I met him through Joe Boyd and Nat Joseph,back in 1966, who both respected him.